Michael Banim
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 372
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Excerpt from The Mayor of Wind-Gap, Vol. 1 of 2 Maurteen Maher seemed rather an elderly man, yet quite alert in all his movements. He was tall and thin, with angular features, a sallow com. Plexion and a shrewd eye; and although many might call him illlfavoured, there was something inviting in his smile, and respectable in the steady intelligence of his look. The general expression of his face was, however, habit of observation, and a consciousness of intellectual superiority, perhaps ostentatiously displayed. His grayish well-combed hair fell in great profusion on his shoulders, yet he wore over it, - or rather over half of it, - a wig of three buckles; his hat was very broad-brimmed; his loose outside edat had an ample cape, and was drawn and held tight round his waist by a belt of horse-skin, which also performed the duty of sus pending his fishing-panier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.